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CARD-MATCH MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. '7, 1916.

Application filed February 12, 1915. Serial No. 7,708.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM H. PARKER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Steilacoom, Pierce county, VVashington, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Card-Match Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in machines for cutting sheet match stock into cards, and especially into cards in which match members are split apart but connected together at one end, and in which thin stock is used so that the individual matches can be readily torn from the card. These matches are most generally called advertising matches, because printed matter is placed either on the matches or their container, or both, and they can be made from any suitable sheet stock. My machine is especially adapted for making them out of thin wood veneers in which the grain of the wood runs crosswise of the. veneer strip, and in which the width of the strip corresponds to the length of the match.

The object of my invention is to produce a rapid working, simple and positive machine, which will rapidly cut sheet stock into match cards and deliver the cards on a suitable carrier so that the ends of the individual splint members can be dipped in the desired compositions.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a broken plan view of the machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front end view thereof. Fig. 3 is a broken side elevation on an enlarged scale showing some of the details of the machine. Fig. 4 is a sectional end view show ing in detail the punch actuating mechanism for removing the cards from the cutting mechanism to the carrier. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view of the strippers and punching mechanism showing the stock clamp of the punch in open position. Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 5 but with the stock clamp closed upon the stock. Fig. 7 is a'detail view showing a preferred means of imparting motion to the carrier or conveyer, and Fig. 8 is a broken side elevation of one of the strippers.

The machine is provided with a suitable means of driving it.

frame 10 which can be of any approved design, and at the front end of the machine is supported a vertical spindle 11 on which a roll of veneer stock 12 can be supported. Obviously the stock can be other material than veneer, however, and likewise it will be understood that sheet stock can be fed to the machine without being coiled in the form of a. roll. The stock is fed to the machine by the feed rollers 13 and 14 which are vertically arranged as shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 2, and one of these is preferably provided with a flange l i 'which overlaps the other so as to prevent the stock from riding up. The feed rollers are carried by vertical shafts 15 and 16 mounted in suitable bearings, and preferably supported in brackets 17 and 18 one of which can be made to slide on the machine frame as shown in Fig. 1, and can be adjusted by a set screw 19 so as to regulate the tension of the feed. I have not shown this mechanism in detail, because any suitable means can be provided for adjusting the feed rollers and such an arrangement is not novel. The feed rollers are geared together by gear wheels 20 and 21, and the shaft 16 of one of them has a bevel pinion 22 meshing with a mutilated gear on the driving shaft 24 which extends endwise across the machine and is provided with a driving pulley 25 or equivalent This arrangement it will be seen provides an intermittent motion for the feed rolls, so that the stock 12 will be carried forward to the machine knives as presently described, and it will then come at rest while the knives close upon it.

As the stock is fed forward by the feed rollers, it passes between parallel strippers 26 which are supported on the machine frame and spaced apart so that the stock passes readily between them, the strippers being in the form of plates which-are paral lel at their upper parts as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, but which diverge downward as shown at 27 to provide for the spread of the stock as it is cut, and the inclined parts of the strippers are slotted as shown at 28 in order that the knives 29 can pass through the slots and cut the stock 12. These knives 29 are arrangedin banks as shown best in Fig. 1, and they are spaced apart by spacing blocks 30 so that as they advance toward each other they will overlap and cut the stock 12 into the shape shown in Fig. 3, forcing one splint member 12 in one direction, and the next adjacent splint member in the opposite direction, while the splint members are connected at the top by the uncut stock as at 12. The knives are preferably concave at their cutting edges so that they will shear by one another and cut nicely, and it .will be seen that as the stockis cut the splint members 12 will lie against the unslotted portions of the strips 26 so that when the knives are withdrawn the stock is prevented by the strips from sticking between the knives.

The banks of knives and their spacers 30 are carried in knife holders 31 which are in the form of rectangular boxes, open on adjacent sides, and the knives and spacers are held between blocks 32 at their ends, and the blocks 32 at one end of the knife holder are engaged by set screws 33 which pass through the end wall of the knife holder so that by tightening up the set screws, the knives and spacers can be firmly clamped together, while by loosening the set screws the knives and spacers can be easily removed for sharpening or other purposes.

Obviously any suitable means can be used for reciprocating the knife holders and knives, but I have shown a simple and preferred means in which generally U shaped levers 36 are pivoted as shown at 37 on the machine frame, and these are pivotally connected b v pins to lugs 34 on the backs of the knife holders 31 and to slide blocks on the machine frame. The lower ends of the U shaped levers 36 have inwardly extending arms 38 carrying rollers 39 running in a cam groove 40 of the cam wheel 41, the latter being secured to the main shaft 24, and thus it will be seen that by the rotation of the cam wheel, thelevers 36 are oscillated, and the knife holders 31 and knives 29 reciprocate. The machine is arranged so that these knives 29 advance toward each other when the stock 12 is at rest between the advancing knives.

After the stock is cut as stated, it is necessary to push the cut or formed card downward upon a suitable carrier, and to this end I use a vertically sliding punch 42 which is shown best in Figs. 5 and 6, and which has near the lower end an abutment 43 squared on the under side so that it will engage the top of a card 12, and the upper end of the punch is secured to a plate 44 which is inte gral with the vertically sliding frame 45, the latter moving on suitable guide rods or standards 46 on the top of the machine frame. The sliding frame or cross-head has a depending arm 47 which at its lower end connects by means of a pin 48 with the slotted end 49 of a rocking arm 50 (see Fig. 4) and the latter is pivoted as shown at 51 and connects by means of a link 52 with a bent lever 53 which is pivoted at 54 to the machine frame, and has a roller 55 running in the cam groove 56 of a cam 57 on the main shaft 24. This cam and groove are arranged so that the cross-head 45 and punch 42 will move downward after the stock has been cut and as the knives are being withdrawn from the stock. Obviously other suitable means can be used for actuating the punch without affecting the principle of the invention.

The punch mechanism shown in Figs. 5 and 6 has means for clamping the stock so as to hold it in accurate position as the punch descends, and for releasing the clamp after the stock has been placed on the carrier. To this end a stationary plate 58 is arranged opposite the punch 42, and supported on one of the strips 26, or any convenient support, and the plate is provided with abutments 59 and 60 near the upper and lower parts. A clamping plate 61 is arranged between the punch 42 and the plate 58. and loosely connected with the'punch by thelink 62. while the upper end of the clamping plate is normally forced away from the punch by a spring 63. On one side of the clamping plate near the top is an abutment 64, and near the lower end the plate is bent as shown at 65 so as to receive the abutment 43 on the punch 42. Vhen the punch-42 descends, the abutment 64 passes beneath the abutment 59, and the spring (33 pushes out the upper end of the clamping plate 61 and forces the lower end against the match card 12 as in Fig. 6, thus holding the card so that it will be car ried downward by the punch 42 and placed accurately in position. As it is placed in position, the abutment 64 will strike the abutment 60 and open the clamp so that the punch may first deposit the card and then return unloaded.

When the formed stock, that is the cards 12, are forced down by the punch, each card straddles a cross-bar 66 on the carrierframe 66 so that the ends will stick down below the frame as in Fig. 2, ready for dipping in the impregnating and firing compositions. The cross-bars 66 can form a part of the frames 66 which are engaged by abutments 68 on the carrier chains 67, or if desired the cross-bars 66 may be permanently attached to the chains, all this depending on how the cards are dipped, that is to say whether the frames 66 are removed and the splints dipped in the frames, or whether the carrier 67 is made to carry the splints over suitable dipping mechanism.

The carrier chains can be moved in any suitable intermittent manner, and in Fig. 7 I have shown a convenient means. Here the chains run over a pulley 69 on the shaft 70 which carries a loose ratchet wheel 71 engaged by a pawl 73 on a rocking arm 72 which is pivoted on the shaft 17, and the lower end of the rocking arm can be engaged by a connecting rod 74: which can connect with one of the levers 36 above referred to, so that at every oscillation of the lever the arms 72 will be rocked and motion imparted to the pulley 69 and carrier chains 67.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that I have provided a very simple form of machine for making the kind of matches referred to, that the stock is automatically fed between knives designed to separate the splint members of a card, that means is provided for preventing the splint members from sticking between the knives and that the means for depositing the formed card upon a carrier for dipping is of a simple positive nature not likely to get out of repair, and sure to work positively.

I claim 1. In av machine of the kind described'the combination of the banks of knives arranged to interlock, strippers arranged between the knives, said strippers being spaced apart and having their lower portions slotted to permit the passage of knives through them, of a punch movable between the strippers, said punch having a shoulder thereon to engage the top of the stock held between the strippers, a clamping plate attached to such punch, a plate arranged opposite the sliding punch, and abutments on the plate to engage the clamping plate of the punch.

2. In a machine of the kind described the combination of opposed banks of reciproeating knives arranged to interlock, means for feeding sheet stock between the knives, parallel strippers arranged to receive the stock between them and slotted to permit the knives to pass through, a conveyer passing below the knives and provided with cross-bars, and a punching mechanism movable vertically between the strippers and adapted to carry the formed stock and deliver it upon the parallel cross-bars.

3. In a machine of the kind described the combination of opposed horizontal reciprocating knives arranged to interlock, parallel strippers arranged to receive the stock between them and slotted to permit the knives to pass through, and a punching mechanism movable vertically between the strippers.

4:. In a machine of the kind described the plate.

WILLIAM H. PARKER. WVitnesses R. F. GLEAsoN, M. BAIR. 

